pigmy
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Washington's National Zoo is notable for the contributions it gets from the White House�Teddy Roosevelt gave it a Somali ostrich, Calvin Coolidge a pigmy hippo, Franklin Roosevelt an Archangel pigeon.
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Yet on Madagascar, the extinction of giant lemurs and pigmy hippopotamuses did not occur until within the past 1,000 years.
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Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States.
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Pompeii, chalk caricatures from, 15, 17; pigmy pugilists from, 15; described, 16; its amphitheatre closed, 17; how discovered, 21.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
